EVOLUTION IN SCHOOL: REGENERATION OF THE LIBERAL REPUBLIC (1880-1930)

This article tries to clarify, based on the analysis of some representative texts from the time, the way that the evolution´s notions were materialized on classroom during the conservative dominance of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, before liberalism took power again in 1930. It is not a definitive study; much less, intended to exhaust the topic. It describes a scene about the reaction, not infrequently acrimonious, that evolution and those explanations did not contemplate the divine idea faced within education profoundly affected by Catholic dogma. It also tries to explain the convoluted situation of this case, therefore, although the dominance of notions influenced by Catholicism, there was a small space for those lessons solved to the evolution, as well as others that conjugated elements of both, which is to show a problematic situation, in which the religious feud was not absolute